After hurricane Charley, though the main part of my mom's mobile home was sound
there was water damage to the ceiling throughout due to roof damage. I built
this inexpensive deadman to hold the new ceiling panels in place while I nailed
them up. Used a small floor jack at the apex of the main frame to get the final
inches of lift after one of my sons and I would put the panel on the plastic
coated supprt frame which was securely bolted to the jack. It worked quite well.

Renting wasn't really an option as the replacement didn't all happen at once
with no set time frame,taking place in fits and starts. The place was left
structurally sound so work went slowly with mom living there, only making great
forward strides when she went to stay with relatives for a few weeks here and
there enabling me to really tear things apart while she was gone & get 'em
back together before she returned. There just wasn't enough room for me to tear
out all the old & put up the new with her staying there & I have a full
time job to go to as well, not to mention being a single parent.